Analia Gade

Born on October 28, 1931 in Córdoba (Argentina), María Esther Gorostiza Rodríguez —her real name— was the daughter of Fermín Gorostiza, a Spanish playwright and furrier. She was educated in a religious boarding school, which she left at the age of fifteen to pursue acting. She then won a radio contest that was looking for new talents for the cinema. The prize consisted of appearing in the film  Rattlesnake . At that time, she decided to use  Analía Gadé as her stage name , a pseudonym that she had originally invented to sign her love letters. At the end of the 40s, she shot twenty titles in Argentina, such as  Cita en las estrellas , where she shared the screen with  Juan Carlos Thorry ., with whom he formed his own theater company. Both got married, although ten years later they divorced.

After  Los tallos amargos  (1956), by  Fernando Ayala  —one of her best Argentine films—, she moved to Spain, where she filmed  A Boyfriend’s Trip , together with  Fernando Fernán Gómez , to whom she was romantically linked. With the unforgettable actor he appeared in numerous titles, such as  Girls in Blue  (1957),  Life Ahead  (1958), and its sequel,  Life Around  (1959),  Ana Says Yes  (1958),  Summer Moon  (1959) . ,  only for men (1960) —adaptation of a work by  Miguel Mihura— and the well-remembered  Mayores con reparos  (1966), where both Analía and Fernán Gómez played three different characters, just as they did in the theatrical version.

Popular in the 50s and 60s —especially because of her captivating eyes—, Analía Gadé got a lot out of her particular physique in titles like  El monumento . But she has also shown enormous talent and versatility, for example in her theatrical collaborations with  Juan José Alonso Millán . In addition to her work with Fernando Fernán Gómez , she worked alongside other well-known Spanish actors, such as  José Luis López Vázquez , in Embassy Operation  (1963) or  Black Story  (1971); Alberto Closas , in  A Little Girl from Valladolid  (1958);  Alfredo Landa , in  Not Available  (1968); Juan Luis Galiardo , in  Coqueluche  (1970); Fernando Rey , in  Doubt  (1972); the singer  Joan Manuel Serrat , in  My private teacher  (1973); Arturo Fernández , in  The lie has red hair  (1960) and  The adulterer  (1975); and  Paco Rabal , in  Las melancólicas (1971), with which she won the Fotogramas de Plata for Best Actress. She also shared the screen with  Sophia Loren herself , in  Madame Sans-Gene  (1961), where she played Carolina Bonaparte, or  Gene Tierney , in  The Four Nights of the Full Moon  (1963).

Among his best works for the big screen are the thriller  El ojo del huracán  (1971), directed by  José María Forqué , with a script by  Rafael Azcona  and   co-starring  Jean Sorel , as well as Las largas vacaciones del 36  (1976), directed by Jaime Camino. She succeeded on television in the early 60s with the program Analía Gadé tells us , and later in the series  Mrs. García confesses, Fragments of the interior, Composed and without a boyfriend, Carmen and family  or  Private life . Starting in the 80s, she concentrated mainly on her theatrical activity, where over the decades she has appeared in numerous titles such as  Sweet Bird of Youth , by  Tennessee Williams .

In 1959 she obtained the National Award of the Spectacle Union, In 1973 the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (CEC) awarded her an award for the whole of her career, and in 2015 the Medal of Honor. The Association of Cinematographic Chroniclers of Argentina awarded him the Silver Condor Award for his career in 2004.